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Example sentences for "having"

Lexicographically close words:
havi; havia; havian; havildar; havin; havinge; havings; haviour; havis; havnt
  1. Having exhausted their vocabulary of sympathy, our friends left us, as the "poor little animal" showed signs of coming to.

  2. Having carefully arrayed himself for the meeting, the governor took his position in the wide balcony already referred to, with two officials of the palace stationed near, one on either side.

  3. From this we rose again, and having gained the summit, looked down upon the village of San Juan Zautla.

  4. Starting at seven, we lost a little time in having a photograph of our party taken as we left the city, so that it was really 8:15 before we were on our way.

  5. Having passed through San Felipe and San Miguel, a pleasant road, through a gorge, brought us to the valley in which Teposcolula lies.

  6. We rode rapidly from the herrería of the Trinidad to Metepec, and then to Las Tortugas, where we arrived at 11:40, having been five hours and a half upon the road.

  7. Having measured all the members of the committee, I soberly addressed them.

  8. Having stated the matter fully, I consented to receive back the money, and tore up the receipt much to their relief.

  9. Having crossed the large lagoon, we entered the mouth of what probably would be considered a fair-sized river, which at first was closely bordered by a tangle of trees and vines, and presented a truly tropical appearance.

  10. Having reached the place upon the bank where the canoe loads had been left, we stopped to freight again.

  11. He had been but a short time in this district, having come from Tonala, where he has a finca.

  12. Thanks to our arriero, we drew up at Doña Serafina's when it was but 3:40 in the afternoon, having been upon the road eleven hours.

  13. King Alfred had invented the plan, long before, of having candles to burn a certain time; the monks knew how long it took to repeat certain psalms.

  14. Having placed these under her aunt's bolster, she sat down again to her work, and Avice resumed her interrupted story.

  15. Chickens were dear just then, and this one had cost three farthings, having been provided in honour of company.

  16. The meal was just ready, and Avice had put away her carding, having finished that kind of work for the day, when a rap at the door was followed by the lifting of the latch, and the old smith put in his head.

  17. Having made things tidy, our friends now tied on woollen hoods, and each taking down from the rafter-hooks a capacious basket, they went forth to do their shopping.

  18. He cast a large number of founts, narrow in the "set" or width of the letters as compared with their height, and having the excessively fine lines and the close loops and curves which are characteristic of that face.

  19. Instead of a single character for each letter, a certain variety is introduced by having several characters, the compositor being trained to use the different forms exactly as the hand would automatically make a change in hand-lettering.

  20. While the latter was preparing, having got rid of the dust, I went out into the streets.

  21. The three had served in America, all of them having been colonels while little more than boys.

  22. These troops are all officers, the privates having the rank and receiving the pay of lieutenants.

  23. He had just money enough to do this, having left his wife in Liverpool.

  24. The Seine comes winding its way through a broad rich valley, from the southward, having just before run east, and, a league or two beyond due west, our own Susquehanna being less crooked.

  25. The whole party appeared greatly relieved by having something to do during the desert, in admiring the service, which was of the beautiful Sèvres china.

  26. She had never seen her own Legislature, and having a set of theories cut and dried for Congress, everything that struck her as novel was referred to one of her preconceived notions.

  27. Having a note to write, I had left him there, and I think his carriage could not have quitted the court when that of Sir Walter Scott entered.

  28. He never saw his daughter, having been beheaded in Paris, about a year before her birth.

  29. But, not having a servant, I was now compelled to look after our effects in person.

  30. Instead of scientists having been able from year to year to produce an increasing abundance of proof for the correctness of the doctrine of Descent, the lack of proofs and the impossibility of procuring evidence is to-day notorious.

  31. A decisive critique can be constructed only on the basis of experience, and in this connection it cannot be emphasized sufficiently, that, as yet, the path to it has been scarcely indicated, to say nothing of its having been actually pursued.

  32. The author esteems himself in the highest degree fortunate in having the co-operation of Mr. Alvin Langdon Coburn.

  33. He strolls along like a great rollicking schoolboy, bent on having a good time, and determined that his readers shall have it with him.

  34. As he reached St. Louis, having taken passage for home, a shell came whizzing by and carried off part of the pilot-house.

  35. We are sometimes left in doubt whether he is speaking in all sincerity or whether he is having a sly laugh at himself and his readers"!

  36. The passengers had now massed themselves in groups, some touch of sympathy, or previous acquaintance, or trait of courage but recently discovered, having drawn them together.

  37. That bunch in the steerage must be having a hard time.

  38. The two were heading for the saloon, the bugle having sounded for luncheon.

  39. After having evaporated the solution containing the products of oxidation, nearly neutralized with HCl, to about one fifth its original volume, it is made very slightly acid and allowed to cool.

  40. This was dissolved in a small quantity of alcohol from which it separated on evaporation in small radial crystals having a light lavender color & satiny luster.

  41. Having thus obtained the toluene ortho-sulphonic acid the next step in the problem was to find a convenient method for converting this into ortho-sulph-benzoic acid.

  42. On the addition of concentrated HCl to this solution, the sulphinide separated out in white or slightly yellowish feather shaped crystals melting at 212° and having the characteristic intensely sweet taste.

  43. This solution was evaporated on the water bath and while still having a considerable volume, small, red, sharply defined crystals began to separate.

  44. Orthosulphobenzoic acid acts on resorcin at a temperature of about 180° giving off water and forming a substance analogous to fluoresceïn but having the CO group replaced by SO{2}.

  45. If the mass is treated with water it partly dissolves leaving a dark brown flocculent precipitate which dissolves on the addition of an alkali, the solution having an intense fluorescence, nearly if not quite equaling that of fluoresceïn.

  46. I met him first in the Mulberry Street police-station, where he was interpreting the defence in a shooting case, having come in with the crowd from Jersey Street, where the thing had happened at his own door.

  47. I cannot now recall ever having known a Jewish drunkard.

  48. The schools themselves, like the Society's lodging-houses for homeless children, stand as lasting monuments to a Christian charity that asks no other reward than the consciousness of having done good where the need was great.

  49. The one immigrant who does not keep step, who, having fallen out of the ranks, has been ordered to the rear, is the Chinaman, who brought neither wife nor children to push him ahead.

  50. The feeblest ray of daylight never found its way down there, the hatches having been carefully covered with rags and matting; but freshets often did.

  51. These are rarely sent West, early consignments of them having stirred up a good deal of trouble there.

  52. I watched a crowd of them having a donkey party in the street one night, when those parties were all the rage.

  53. Now that his mother was dead and his father in a hospital, he had become a sort of fixture there, it seemed, having made the acquaintance of the other lads.

  54. A few are reported as having "gone to the bad.

  55. One man fought a duel with a woman, she having said that women doctors did not know as much as men.

  56. But New York City went a step further, by having special laws passed securing a stated income from the money raised by local taxation to nine of its largest institutions.

  57. It seemed a marvel that she had come through the snow and ice as she had, without having her feet frozen.

  58. Encircling the crown are long, narrow bands or sashes, one of which is white, the others having figures woven in brilliant colors.

  59. The frequent plowing of the field has destroyed many earthen vessels, the interments having been made quite near the surface.

  60. The surface is rough, the polishing stone having been very carelessly applied.

  61. The only bowl having a flaring rim is without ornament.

  62. Cup stone of rough sandstone, having seventeen shallow cup-like depressions, from 1 to 2 inches in diameter.

  63. The entire specimens range from 3 to 6 inches in length; two are fragmentary, having lost their points by decay.

  64. A small disk of gray quartzite, having a shallow circular depression in each face.

  65. Bowls similar to the above having interior decorations consisting of curved lines.

  66. Small cups similar to the preceding, but having a variety of indented ornaments about the shoulder and upper part of the body; these ornaments consist of wide vertical lines, or of encircling scalloped lines.

  67. Vessels having vertical or flaring rims are generally somewhat more shallow.

  68. Rods of this tough wood, about 7 feet long, are dressed to the proper shape, the ends having a semicircular section, the middle part being flat.

  69. Bottle or jug shaped vases, resembling the preceding, but having wide, short necks.

  70. A small vase similar to the above, but having a human head.

  71. A jar having a high, wide neck, and small, globular body.

  72. The main Allegation they had against him was that they could not understand him, (he having a small Tang of the French) tho' they had been hearing him I think upwards of seven Years, without any Complaint of that kind till that very Time.

  73. Having here and in the last Scheme spoken of the Vent that might be contrived for the additional Produce of Virginia, I shall add no more upon that Subject, but subjoin a few Considerations relating to all the Plantations in general.

  74. The fact of the lamps not burning properly, and there being no water or towels in our rooms, was due, he explained, to this disorganizing festival; as also the circumstance of our doors having no knobs to them.

  75. You are, of course, a great artist; but I don't remember you ever having a thought quite so fine and romantic as that, do you?

  76. It seemed cruel to think of his old bones having still to go on working, but our two old people, who seemed pathetically fond of each other, were evidently very poor, like the rest of the valley.

  77. Bragg, having been heavily re-enforced, started at the same time from Lafayette to interpose between Rosecrans and Chattanooga, the Union objective of the whole campaign.

  78. Beyond the latter rose the equally precipitous cliffs of the Raccoon Mountains, the latter having the same general elevation as the Lookout range.

  79. At half-after 5 General Thomas, having full discretion, decided to withdraw to occupy the passes in his rear at McFarland and Rossville, which controlled the roads to Chattanooga.

  80. Having attained her first object, Vittoria took less pains to play the saint, and began to dress with unbecoming magnificence and to live on a very extravagant scale.

  81. It recalls the times when, having powers of justice, and of life and death, the lords sat in state under the overhanging silks, embroidered with their coats of arms, to administer the law.

  82. Much may be forgiven them, and for what just things they did they should be honoured, for the hardship of having done right at all against such odds.

  83. And perhaps the largest part of the knowledge worth having lies in the change from the ancient capital of the Empire to the mediæval seat of ecclesiastic domination.

  84. Like most clever men, too, he was more than reasonably angry at having been deceived in his judgment of a girl's character.

  85. Having made up his mind to sacrifice his money, however, he lost no time before trying to get an equivalent for it.

  86. Having finished what I intended to say concerning the distance and magnitude of objects, I come now to treat of the manner wherein the mind perceives by sight their situation.

  87. But, so it is, the confusion itself is entirely neglected by mathematicians as having no necessary relation with distance, such as the greater or lesser angles of divergency are conceived to have.

  88. It is nevertheless certain, the ideas intromitted by each sense are widely different and distinct from each other; but having been observed constantly to go together, they are spoken of as one and the same thing.

  89. Thus, greater confusion having been constantly attended with nearer distance, no sooner is the former IDEA perceived, but it suggests the latter to our thoughts.

  90. FIRST, then, it is certain the aforesaid intelligence could have no idea of a solid, or quantity of three dimensions, which followeth from its not having any idea of distance.

  91. Visible figure and extension having been demonstrated to be of a nature entirely different and heterogeneous from tangible figure and extension, it remains that we inquire concerning.

  92. Eva has been having bad dreams or something, I think,' laughed Vava, who had recovered her spirits.

  93. This morning was going all wrong; she had meant to be very polite, but more reserved than ever, and here she was, on the contrary, having more conversation with her employer than she had had all the time she had been with him.

  94. You said you had a bad presentiment about something having gone wrong, and nursie's coming is not wrong at all; it has put things right,' persisted Vava.

  95. It's more exhausting to try and get on with that young woman than any number of haughty dowagers, and really I should be sorry for our boy to fall in love with her; it would be slow work having a statue for a wife.

  96. At last Miss Upjohn and her visitor had the satisfaction of having brought Miss Briggs round to their opinion.

  97. The other two young leddies will be having their tea upstairs,' she remarked in answer to Stella.

  98. Doreen, and she looked at Vava as if she suspected her of having taken some tales to her sister, or made some complaint about them.

  99. Pardon the folly, the weakness of a man who, having known you for less than a week, finds the loss of your esteem the hardest of the many miseries he is called upon to bear.

  100. The desire to make sure if what I heard about the mill having been used as a secreting place for certain mysterious articles, was true.

  101. I did not stop at the time to inquire why this was, but I have since concluded, in thinking over the subject, that the parlor curtains must have been drawn up, something which I do not remember ever having seen there before or since.

  102. I could not believe this to be true, and when, Mr. Barrows having been released, we had all returned home, I asked to see the will and judge for myself.

  103. I preferred rather to indulge in all sorts of wild conjectures, having the landlady, the servant, even Dr.

  104. The window I had chosen was the one which looked into the conservatory, and the picture which Mr. Barrows describes as having seen from this spot was then and there before my eyes.

  105. What was my surprise, then, when the will having been proved, I obtained permission to read it and found that it not only contained mention of reparation, but that this reparation was to be made to Margaret his wife.

  106. It was like having one coil of an oppressive nightmare released from my breast.

  107. They are having their own way, and they like it.

  108. Having obtained his chances, he must take upon himself the responsibility for his own success or failure.

  109. Dawson has pointed out) having its parallel in that of the secondary chambers in Carpenteria.

  110. They are known to feed to a large extent on minute plants, the Diatoms, and other organisms having silica in their skeletons or cell-walls, and consequently soluble silicates in their juices.

  111. In these the fossil is sometimes preserved in the ordinary manner, with its cavities filled with serpentine, and the thicker parts of the skeleton having their canals filled with this substance.

  112. It does not sink deep into the rock, the form having probably been loose and much abraded on what is now the under part, before being entombed.

  113. Joint of a Crinoid, having its pores injected with a Hydrous Silicate.

  114. The latter, having once tasted the pleasures of slave-ownership in the midst of vast reserves of dark-skinned people, soon put the principle into the fullest practice and application.

  115. Major Warden was continued at Bloemfontein as the Governor, or Resident, and Sir Harry Smith returned to Cape Town after having carried out a policy which should have been effected long before.

  116. Mr. Rees in his biography of the Governor tells an amusing story of his having upon some public occasion remonstrated against the extravagant folly of a number of the native women in wearing brass ornaments.

  117. The British working party added sixty rifles to the defense, and so even was the balance in the combat, the repulse of the assailants was apparently due to the accident of this force having a special service at the point of danger.

  118. Cut off from all literature, having nothing but the Bible and a metrical version of the Psalms, they developed a type of character unique in itself and productive of most serious consequences.

  119. On March 21st, the armistice having meanwhile been prolonged and President Brand not having turned up, a new meeting of President Kruger, Sir E.

  120. Deceased went to Marlboro in April, 1876, and he had resided there ever since, having served on the Board of School Committee for about nine years, filling this position at the time of his death.

  121. It is given in a bulk and the legatee not having been put to the trouble and pains of earning the legacy dollar for dollar soon lets the specie fly.

  122. Madden led a busy and useful life, having spent some years as special magistrate in Jamaica, and worked in concert with Wilberforce, Buxton and Clarkson, for the abolition of slavery.

  123. Curran never forgave his daughter for having given her affections to Emmet; he practically disowned her, and did not, it is said, even extend his forgiveness to her at the hour of her death some years later.

  124. We were having a little picnic at Carisbrook, the children and I, not long ago, and Jacob took an immense interest in all our proceedings.

  125. His usefulness will be enhanced by his having a seat in Parliament.

  126. He was called upon to do other work in this world, and he did that work so worthily that we may well forgive him for having been so little of a rebel at a time when rebellion was the duty of every Irishman.

  127. Johnston, having been a famous caricaturist in his day, his brother Thomas a very talented figure painter, and his sister, Miss S.

  128. If it had not been for Andor, who sat next to her and who saw to her having something to eat and drink--it was little enough, God knows!

  129. It's no use going on having rows by post with the War Office about the proofs of a man's death who has been food for worms these past two years.

  130. Leopold Hirsch, having done the awful deed, had fled, of course, but his victim might not be dead, he might be only wounded and dying for want of succour.

  131. Those who watched her--and there were many--declared that not only did she never stop crying for a moment during Mass, but that her eyes were swollen and her cheeks puffy from having cried all the night and all the day before.

  132. So in order to give me the pleasure of having father near me at my farewell feast, Móritz and Jenö and Imre and Jankó are going to fasten long poles to his chair and carry him to the schoolroom and back.

  133. They acknowledged a social barrier more readily, perhaps, than any other peasantry in Europe, but having once acknowledged it, they will not admit that either party can stand on both sides of it at one and the same time.

  134. Kapus Irma, irritated by the looks of commiseration which were being levelled at her daughter, dubbed the latter a fool for not having the sense to know how to keep her bridegroom by her side.

  135. We thought of having some tarok[5] this evening.

  136. As for Doctor Satan's having a hand in the horrible fate of Weems and the rest--he told you beforehand that it would happen, didn't he?

  137. Then he led Lydia, gently supporting her by the arm to the steps of the organ, where in a semi-dark corner a strange casket covered over by a curtain, and having a round glass attached was visible.

  138. She did not allude in any way to the Magister, and having refreshed Lydia with a cup of fresh milk dismissed her with a motherly kiss.

  139. The laborers themselves had been obliged to undertake the burial of the dead and the cleaning of the streets, all the healthy men having fled.

  140. In other words, my Lady Cousin," replied the Kurfuerst angrily, "a punishment is once more being inflicted on you and others for having turned your Institution into a refuge for Papists.

  141. On the Holtermann were likewise four young witches, riding on brooms, and having lights stuck in their backs as signals for the others.

  142. It would be utterly impossible for him to undertake the work with any comfort and happiness if he had hourly to reproach himself with having delayed her convalescence.

  143. Her back hurt her from having fallen against stones, the stinging pain in her foot caused her to sob, but she believed that she would be saved, and considered this as a punishment for the guilt which she had been induced to commit.

  144. Indistinctly she seemed to remember having been jolted in a cart.

  145. The old Barbara delighted at having some one to keep her company in her solitude, set a bowl of millet soup before him chattering away in praise of her young mistress.

  146. So soon as the old gentleman is dead, Calvinism will be as carefully rooted out, as it is now implanted, and then much depends on our having here a party, on which we can reckon.

  147. It is usually called the Delian Problem, from its having been suggested by the oracle of Apollo at Delphos, requiring that Apollo's cubical altar should be doubled.

  148. But in point of litigiousness the Squarers of the Circle most decidedly carry off the palm, having frequently laid and lost heavy wagers, and even appeared in a Court of Justice to settle their monetary disputes.

  149. The difficulties of the question are enormous, and no one will think the less of them after having gone through this volume.

  150. Or, by having the gold in a hollow rod, stopped at one end with wax, used to stir up the materials, the gold would naturally enough appear in the crucible.

  151. But as the robber was conveying her to the cave of his captain, he was stopped by Proteus, who, still attended by Julia in the disguise of a page, having heard of the flight of Silvia, had traced her steps to this forest.

  152. At this moment Diana and her mother entered, and presented a petition to the king, wherein they begged his majesty to exert his royal power to compel Bertram to marry Diana, he having made her a solemn promise of marriage.

  153. Prospero only smiled at this first instance of his daughter's disobedience, for having by his magic art caused his daughter to fall in love so suddenly, he was not angry that she showed her love by forgetting to obey his commands.


  154. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    having arrived; having come; having died; having discovered; having failed; having fallen; having found; having gone; having great; having learned; having listened; having lived; having made; having many; having once; having only; having previously; having sent; having some; having spent; having succeeded; having taken; having their; having them; having three; having written